Events

Seminar: Dies Medievalis 2024

Den danske middelalderdag. Et årligt tilbagevendende forum, hvor middelalderforskere fra hele landet mødes for at præsentere nye aspekter inden for udforskningen af dansk middelalder.

Elizabeth Tyler: The Model for Cambridge University Library, Gg 5.35 and the Exeter Book: Latin and Vernacular Poetic Anthologising in 10th-Century England

Elizabeth Tyler (University of York) will be giving an online talk on 16 April 2024 at 5:00 PM CET

Sarah Bowden, 'The time of the text: temporality and salvation in twelfth-century German devotional writing’

Sarah Bowden (King's College London) will be giving an online talk on 7 February 2024 at 5:00 PM CET

Online seminar. Christian Raffensperger

Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University) will be giving an online lecture at CML on "Recentering Medieval Europe: The Periphery Made Central", 30 November at 6:00 PM CET

Online seminar. Erik Niblaeus

Erik Niblaeus (University of Cambridge) will be giving an online lecture at CML on "Adam of Bremen, Popes and the Papacy", 22 September 2023 at 12:00-13:00 PM CET

Interfaces Journal Lectures autumn 2023

CML is happy to present the programme for the online Interfaces Journal Lectures in autumn 2023

Kick-off Workshop: A Rhetoric for the Empire

Kick-off Workshop: A Rhetoric for the Empire, 13-16 June 2023, Odense (SDU Campus & Convent of Noble Maidens)

Talk. Elizabeth Tyler "The Order of the Exeter Book"

Elizabeth Tyler (University of York) will be giving an H.M. Chadwick Lecture at the University of Cambridge

CML videoseminar. Victor Millet

Victor Millet (Universidade Santiago de Compostela) will be giving an online lecture on 7 March, 2023 at 2:30 PM CET on "Literary parody and critique of Frankish ideas of empire in the Latin Waltharius (9th or 10th century)"

PhD defence: Elisabetta Barili

Online seminars at CML spring 2023

CML is happy to present the programme for the online seminars in spring 2023! 

CML videoseminar. Aglae Pizzone

CML videoseminar 13 December 2022 at 2:30 CET with Aglae Pizzone, "From Byzantium to Strasbourg: commenting on Hermogenes in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period". The talk will be in the CML common room (SDU) and online via Teams

NetMAR International Conference. The Arts and Rituals of Pilgrimage

International conference organized by the Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals, University of Cyprus, 1-2 December 2022

Seminar: Retracing Connections

Seminar organized by the Retracing Connections project and hosted by CML

CML videoseminar. Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher, "From Medieval to Early Modern Europe: Problems of Method for a Transregional Literary History" will be giving a CML seminar on 8 November at 4:15 CET. The talk will be in the CML common room and online via Teams.

Symposium. Where to find that book? Chasing rare texts circa 800-1500

The conference is organized by Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Centre for Medieval Literature. It will take place 3 and 4 November 2022 in Odense, at the former Convent of Noble Maidens.

Talk. Stephanos Efthymiadis

Stephanos Efthymiadis will be giving a guest lecture on "The two vitae posteriores of saint Epiphanios of Salamis (BHG 601a and 601b) and their metaphrastic technique" at the University of Southern Denmark on Friday 17 June at 1:15 CET. All are welcome to join the talk at SDU or online via Teams. 

Seminar. Fra Partonopeus til Persenober. En dansk ridderroman og dens europæiske baggrund

Seminar at Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen, Friday 10 June 2022 at 10:45-14:45 CET. The seminar will be in Danish and Swedish.

Talk. Emir Filipović

Talk by Prof. dr. Emir Filipović (University of Sarajevo): "Between Conflict and Cooperation: The Contrasting Image of the Ottoman Turk in Late Medieval Ragusan Sources". 7 June 2022 organized by the University of York. The talk will be hybrid - K/133, King's Manor, University of York and Zoom

NetMAR Research Workshop. The Arts and Rituals of Pilgrimage

NetMAR Research Workshop. The Arts and Rituals of Pilgrimage, 26-28 May 2022 at the University of Cyprus

Talk. Catherine Croizy-Naquet "Les historiens médiévaux et la langue"

Talk by prof. Croizy-Naquet Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 16 May 2022. The talk will be online via Teams

Workshop. Beyond Books: Rethinking Textual Circulation and Publication Practices in 12th-century Constantinople

Workshop 13-14 May 2022 at the Danish Institute in Athens organized by Chiara D’Agostini (SDU, CML) and Aglae Pizzone (SDU, DIAS, CML)

Workshop. Religious Narrative in Ancient and Medieval Literary Cultures

Workshop, 5-6 May 2022, organised by Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen and Klazina Staat. The workshop will take place in the CML common room at SDU and online via Teams

CML Conference. Scale(s) of Literary History – Europe c. 500-1500

CML conference at the Danish Institute in Rome, 5-7 April 2022. The central aim of this conference is to explore the spatial, temporal and archival scales which structure our literary histories of the Middle Ages.

CML online seminars programme spring 2022

CML is happy to present the programme for the online seminars in spring 2022! The talks will be online via Zoom

Talk, Divna Manolova. "Representing and Calculating the Medieval Cosmos: An Introduction to the Byzantine Tradition"

Divna Manolova will be giving a talk at the University of Zagreb on Friday January 21, 2022. The talk is organized by the Doctoral Programme in Pre-Modern History, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Zagreb

Conference panel

Conference panel: "From John Geometres to John Tzetzes: reading the "corpus Hermogenianum" in the Middle Byzantine Period" at the 47th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Organized by Aglae Pizzone (CML/DIAS, SDU), Elisabetta Barili (CML, SDU), Paolo Scattolin (University of Verona) and Anna Bistaffa (SDU). This panel is a first step toward a more integrated understanding of the exegetical work done around the corpus Hermogenianum, with a focus on the period from the 10th to the 12th century.

Talk. Lars Boje Mortensen "Verdenslitteratur fra Lund? Saxos Gesta Danorum i nyere forskning og i det globale arkiv”

CML director Lars Boje Mortensen will be giving a lecture at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) of Lund University, 9 December at 3:15 CET

CML videoseminar. Luka Špoljarić, "The Restoration of Royal Power and Historiography in Angevin Croatia"

Online videoseminar by Luka Špoljarić (University of Zagreb), 3 December 2021 at 3:00 CET PM. The talk will be online via Zoom and is part of the online seminar series at CML, autumn 2021.

CML videoseminar. Ingrid Bennewitz, "Brynhild's Return. On the Depiction of the Icelandic Queen in Twenty-first Century Cinema"

Online videoseminar by Ingrid Bennewitz (University of Bamberg) as part of the online seminar series at CML, autumn 2021. The talk will be online via Zoom 25 November at 3:00 CET

Talk. Divna Manolova "Nature’s Building Blocks: Diagrams of the Four Elements in Byzantine Manuscripts"

Divna Manolova will be giving an online lecture organized by the ARGENTINE COMMITTEE OF BYZANTINE STUDIES (CAEBiz) on Tuesday November 23, 2021 at 19:00 CET (online via Zoom)

Medieval Book Fragments, Libraries and Literary History

Third workshop on Nordic manuscript fragment based on a Nordic grant from NOS-HS organised by the Canon and Library strand at CML. The workshop will take place at University of Southern Denmark, Odense and Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen 18-19 December 2021

CML lecture. Karla Mallette, "Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean"

Online lecture by Karla Mallette (University of Michigan) as part of the online seminar series at CML, autumn 2021. The talk will be online via Zoom 10 November at 6:30 PM CET and is organized by CML with Centre for Medieval Studies (York), Centre for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Ghent) and University of Santiago de Compostela

Autumn School: Scales of Knowledge: from Cosmos to Book

Autumn school, 18-22 October 2021 at Ghent and Fordham. This Autumn School will address the challenge of scales of knowledge in times of rapid geopolitical change, taking the 12th-century 'Liber Floridus' as its touchstone. It is organized by the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (Ghent) with Centre for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense and York) and Centre for Medieval Studies (York)

PhD defence: Chiara D'Agostini

CML PhD Chiara D'Agostini will be defending her PhD thesis publicly on Zoom on 24 June 2021 at 1:15 - 4:15 PM CET

Book celebration: European Romances Across Languages

CML's Associate Member Lydia Zeldenrust will present her book and reflect on transnational studies online via Zoom on 7 June 2021 at 14:30 - 16:00 pm BST / 15:30 - 17:00 pm CEST. The event is organized by CML and Boydell and Brewer

Summer School: Medieval Literature Across Languages

Summer School 17-28 May 2021 organised by Retracing Connections (Uppsala University) and Centre for Medieval Literature. This online summer school seeks to provide PhD students with a first immersion into the study of medieval literature across languages.

International conference: Female Authority and Holiness in Early Christianity and Byzantium

Online conference 11-12 May 2021 organised by the Centre for Medieval Literature. Online via Zoom

CML videoseminar. Fozia Bora, Archives and Archival Sensibilities in Medieval Arabic Historiography

Online lecture by Fozia Bora (Leeds), 4 May 2021 at 3:00 PM CET as part of the online seminar series at CML, spring 2021

PhD defence: Rasmus Vangshardt

CML PhD Rasmus Vangshardt will be defending his PhD thesis publicly on Zoom on 19 April 2021 at 5:00 - 8:30 PM CET

CML videoseminar. Alastair Minnis, Hellish Imaginations in the Middle Ages. Imaginations of Hell, Imaginations in Hell

Online seminar 2 March 2021 with Alastair Minnis (Yale) 2 March 2021 at 3:00 PM CET

Workshop: Constructive Absences in Medieval Literature

Online workshop organised by Divna Manolova, Elizabeth Tyler, Julian Yolles, and Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto from the Centre for Medieval Literature, 25-26 February 2021

CML videoseminar. Justin Lake

Online seminar with Justin Lake (Texas A&M) on 'The Malicious Barking of Critics': A Literary-Historical Approach to the Topos of Anticipated Criticism, 9 February 2021 at 3:00 PM CET

Symposium: Crusades, Classics, and the Latin East

Online symposium organised by Julian Yolles (CML) on 29 January 2021

CML videoseminar. Benjamin Anderson, "How Did the Oracles of Leo Mean?"

Online CML videoseminar with Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University), 26 November 2020 at 2:30 PM CET

CML videoseminar. Unn Falkeid, "Birgitta of Sweden and the Widowed Rome"

Online CML videoseminar with Unn Falkeid, 9 November 2020, online via Zoom at 2:30 PM CET

CML videoseminar. Christian Troelsgård

CML videoseminar. Christian Troelsgård, "Tracing aspects of Byzantine chant traditions along the axis ‘Constantinople – Crete – Venice’ in the later part of the fifteenth century" on 8 October 2020 at 2:00 PM CET

Workshop on Saxo Grammaticus

Workshop on Saxo Grammaticus in Odense, 26-27 August 2020

Talk. Julian Yolles "Christian Unity and Religious Polemic in Walter the Chancellor’s Bella Antiochena (c. 1115-22)"

Julian Yolles will be giving a lecture at Ghent University on Friday April 3, 2020 at 12:00-1:00 PM CET. The event is organised by the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies and Ghent University

Conference. Medieval French Without Borders

This international conference looks anew at the origins and development of French within multilingual contact zones from the ninth century until the sixteenth century. It will take place 21-22 March 2020 at the 12th Floor Faculty Lounge, Lowenstein Building, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, 113 West 60th Street

Workshop. Isaac Comnenus Porphyrogenitus: Walking the Line in Twelfth-Century Byzantium and Beyond

International workshop on Isaac Comnenus organized by Valeria Flavia Lovato in Odense, March 5-6 2020. Location: Convent of Noble Maidens

CML videoseminar. Julián Bértola, "Reactions, reflections, paraphrases: functions and contexts of Byzantine verse scholia on historiography"

CML videoseminar on 2 March 2020 (SDU and York) at 2:30 - 3:30 PM CET

Seminar. Female Histories: Women on Stage and Behind the Scenes in Premodern Spain

Seminar 25 February 2020 in Odense at the Convent of Noble Maidens co-organized by the Centre for Medieval Literature and the Historicity Research Group at the University of Southern Denmark

Workshop. Network Theory and Social Network Analysis - A training event for historians and archaeologists

Workshop February 10-12 2020 organised by Aglae Pizzone (CML/Danish Institute for Advanced Study) and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences). The workshop will provide both an overview of basic concepts of network theory and their application in historical and archaeological research as well as an introduction into software tools and practical network analysis

DIAS lecture, Carolyn Dinshaw, "Sodomite, Gay, Queer, Trans: A 14th-Century Document and Its Afterlives"

DIAS lecture on 5 February 2020 by Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University) on "Sodomite, Gay, Queer, Trans: A 14th-Century Document and Its Afterlives". The lecture will take place in the DIAS conference room (SDU) at 12:15-1:15 PM CET

Talk. Lars Boje Mortensen "Roman Identity in Imperial and Nordic Historiography c. 1070-1200"

Lars Boje Mortensen will be giving a lecture at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on 5 December 2019 at 5:30-7:00 PM CET (Institute for Medieval Research, Library, 3rd floor, Hollandstrasse 11-13, 1020 Vienna)

CML Videoseminar. Margaret Mullett, "Performance issues in the Christos Paschon"

CML videoseminar with Margaret Mullett on 14 November 2019

CMS Seminar. Margaret Mullett, Byzantine tent poems and the "global" Middle Ages

Professor Margaret Mullett presents "Byzantine tent poems and the "global" Middle Ages" at the University of York on 12 November 2019 at 5:30-7:00 PM

CML Videoseminar. John Mulhall

CML videoseminar with John Mulhall, "Newfound Ignorance: Attitudes Towards Greeks and Arabs and the Origins of the Medieval Translation Movement in Southern Italy" on 7 November 2019 at 2:30-3:30 PM CET

Symposium. Crisis, Gender and the Politics of Time in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Yearly symposium of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Southern Denmark, 5-6 November 2019 at the Convent of Noble Maidens

CML Videoseminar. Helen Fulton. "A Colony Writes Back to the Empire: Rome and Constantinople in Medieval Welsh Poetry"

CML Videoseminar with Helen Fulton, 29 October 2019 at 2:30-4:00 PM CET

CML Workshop. Liber Floridus

International workshop on the Liber Floridus, 24-25 October 2019 at the Library lab, Faculty Library, Wing Loveling Ghent University. The workshop is organised by the Centre for Medieval Literature and the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies

CML Videoseminar. Paul Gazzoli, "Approaching the Nordic Past Between Source-Criticism and Identity"

CML videoseminar with Paul Gazzoli, 24 September 2019 at 2:30-4:00 PM CET

CML Symposium. Moving Forms: The Transformations and Translocations of Medieval Literature

International conference at The Danish Institute in Athens, 11-13 September 2019. This symposium aims to contribute to the understanding of medieval literature through the development of methodologies which examine the intersection of social networks and communities with literary forms.

Poetic Anthologizing in the Medieval Latin West

Workshop 5-6 July 2019 at St Johns College, University of Cambridge, organised by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) , Elizabeth Tyler (Centre for Medieval Literature, University of York), Wim Verbaal (Ghent University)

Centre for Medieval Literature Reception, Leeds International Medieval Congress 2019

Reception at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2 July 2019 at 6:30-8:30 PM (Great Woodhouse, Leeds)

Conference panel. "Writing as Plan B: Creativity in Exile" (s. 204, Leeds International Medieval Congress)

Conference panel on 1 July 2019 at the Leeds International Medieval Congress. The session plans to follow Latin and Greek authors from 1100 to 1500 into their exile in order to shed light on the relationship between creativity and displacement.

CML Workshop. Shared Worlds

Workshop on 27-29 May in Copenhagen co-organized between the Centre for Medieval Literature and The David Collection.

Conference Presentation. Divna Manolova, Scientific Wonder in Late Byzantine Cosmology and Cosmography

Divna Manolova will be presenting at the first annual Vienna colloquium in Byzantine Philosophy on 24 May 2019

CML Workshop. Canon, Library, and Medieval Publishing

CML Workshop on 25-26 April 2019 organised by CML and the University of Helsinki

CML Videoseminar. Marilynn Desmond, "Forms of Trojan Matter: Boccaccio’s Filostrato and Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde"

CML Videoseminar with Prof. Marilynn Desmond on 10 April 2019 at 2:30-4:00 PM CET. Organised by CML and the Danish Institute for Advances Study

Talk. Thomas Heebøll-Holm, "La reine captive ? Les conditions de vie d’Ingeburge de Danemark en France, 1193-1213"

Thomas Heebøll-Holm on the conditions of Ingeborg of Denmark's life in France, 1193-1213. Organised by Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM), 10 April 2019

Study Day. Kataskopos: The 'view from above' in Western art and thought

Organised by the History of Art Department, University of Cambridge and the Centre for Medieval Literature, 3 March 2019

Medieval Metamorphoses. A Workshop on Ovid and Medieval Commentary Culture

Workshop, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome, March 20-22, 2019.

Conference presentation. "Fourteenth-century books for fifteenth-century audiences: 100 years of the Songe du viel pelerin"

Kristin Bourassa and Justin Sturgeon will be presenting on a manuscript of Philippe de Mézières' Songe at the Renaissance Society of America conference, 17 March 2019

CML Videoseminar. Nicola Morato, "Arthurian prose romances and medieval text culture: time, space, networks"

Nicola Morato (University of Liège) will be speaking on "Arthurian prose romances and medieval text culture: time, space, networks", 14 March 2019 ar 2:30-4:00 PM CET

Roundtable. What is Medieval European Literature? MAA 2019

The 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America: The Global Turn in Medieval Studies, 7 March 2019 at 5:00-6:30 PM

Seminar. Divna Manolova, "Scientific wonder in late Byzantine cosmology and cosmography"

Divna Manolova presents "Scientific wonder in late Byzantine cosmology and cosmography" at the University of Edinburgh Byzantine Studies Seminar, 8 February 2019. Organised by Byzantine Studies Seminar, School of History, Classics & Archaeology and the University of Edinburgh

CML Videoseminar. Giacomo Corazzol, "A Judeo-Greek translation of the Book of Jonah from Medieval Crete"

Giacomo Corazzol (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, CNRS, Paris), "A Judeo-Greek translation of the Book of Jonah from Medieval Crete", 7 February 2019 at 2:30-4:00 PM CET

Public Event. Danmarkshistorie på 100 minutter i Den Gamle By: Saxo – mytemager eller historiker?

Lars Boje Mortensen, forfatter og leder af Centre for Medieval Litterature, Syddansk Universitet, følger Saxo i samtiden og eftertiden, 25. januar 2019. Organiseret af Folkeuniversitetet Aarhus, Den Gamle By og Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Workshop. A Materia de Troia na Península Ibérica: Novas perspectivas

The Journal Troinalexandrina: Yearbook of Classical Material in Medieval Literature sponsors a research workshop on the vast corpus of the Matter of Troy in the medieval Iberian literatures, 18 January 2019 (Santiago)

Conference presentations. Elizabeth Tyler & Réka Forrai at "Greek in the Early Medieval West"

A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the reception of the Greek language in early medieval western Europe, 10-11 January 2019. Organised by TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities)

Conference Presentation. George Younge at Narrating Time: Narrative Responses to Concepts of Time in the Twelfth Century

George Younge, "The Norman Conquest in Time", 7 December 2018, Humboldt University

Conference presentation. Julian Yolles

Julian Yolles presenting at "Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum: The Qur'an in Translation - A Survey of the State-of-the-Art", 5-7 December 2018 at Freie Universität Berlin, organised by Manolis Ulbricht & Berlin Byzantine Studies

Conference presentation. Lars Boje Mortensen

Lars Boje Mortensen speaking at "Gateway to Heaven? The Jerusalem Code in Scandinavia, ca 1000-1948", 4 December 2018 at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Gydas vei 4, Auditorium 1

CML Workshop. Transformations and Translocations

Readings and discussions in CML's Transformations and Translocations research strand, 29-30 November 2018 at the University of York

Videoseminar: Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), "Writing <i>en route</i> in the Middle Ages"

CML videoseminar 22 November 2018 at 2:00-3:30 PM CET. This presentation will consider some examples of portable and transnational textuality, drawing on the research of the Leverhulme Pilgrim Libraries project.

Elizabeth Tyler, "Imperialising Old English: The Battle of Brunanburh"

York Medieval Lecture, K/133, 5:30 pm.

DIAS Lecture, Tom McLeish (University of York), "The Poetry and Music of Science"

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? DIAS lecture by Tom Mcleish 14 November 2018 at 12:15-1:15 PM CET

Rosa Rodríguez Porto and Irene Salvo García speaking at "The Edition of the Latin Classics in the Renaissance: Texts, Readers and Cultural Heritage"

International colloquium, The Edition of the Latin Classics in the Renaissance: Texts, Readers and Cultural Heritage, 14-16 November 2018, Madrid. Organised by Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca de Ediciones de Clásicos latinos en el Renacimiento (BECLaR), de la UNED, Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas y de Humanidades digitales (IEMYRhd), de la Universidad de Salamanca and Biblioteca Histórica “Marqués de Valdecilla”, de la UCM

Eyewitness reports in Greek and Roman historiography

A workshop hosted by Centre for Medieval Literature (CoE) and the Cassius Dio Network (FKK), University of Southern Denmark 9th of November 2018.

PhD defence, Christian Etheridge, "The Transmission and Reception of Science in Medieval Scandinavia 1100-1525"

PhD defence, Christian Etheridge, "The Transmission and Reception of Science in Medieval Scandinavia 1100-1525", 7 November 2018

Fear and Loathing in the Earthly City - Negative Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern Period c. 1100-1700

Conference 1-2 November 2018 at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. Organised by Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Centre for Medieval Literature, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, University of Southern Denmark and Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen, National Museum of Denmark

Elizabeth Tyler, "Connected Vernaculars c. 500-c.1150" at the Stanford Primary Source Symposium

CML's Elizabeth Tyler will be speaking on "Connected Vernaculars c.500-c.1150" at this symposium, 1-2 November 2018 at the Stanford Humanities Center

Elizabeth Tyler speaking at "Medieval European Literature After the 'Global Turn'"

MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE AFTER THE 'GLOBAL TURN'. A roundtable discussion at the Medieval English Graduate Seminar, Cambridge, 24 October 2018

Lars Boje Mortensen speaking at "El rey y sus lenguas: communicación et imperialidad," Madrid

Lars Boje Mortensen speaking on "Imperial Self-Presentation in Western Literature c. 1050-1300". Oganisers: Proyecto IMPERALITER

Ovide dans la Romania médiévale: Journée d'étude

Journée d'étude organisée par Irene Salvo García et Marylène Possamai-Pérez

Interstellar skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature through the Ages

Interdisciplinary symposium on the lunar passage in literature, 4-6 August 2018, organised by Dale Kedwards (CML)

Insular historiographies and theorising the vernacular: an entangled approach

International conference: Vernacular Languages in the Long Ninth Century, June 2018. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) & Elizabeth Tyler (University of York), "Alfred, Cormac mac Cuilennáin and the written vernacular"

Saints and their Several Images

Conference organised by Steffen Hope (CML), 31 May-1 June 2018. This conference aims to explore the many parallel traditions of a given saint, or how tradition changed over time.

Videoseminar: Problematics of European Literary History, 1559-1648

Warren Boutcher speaks on his project, "Europe: A Literary History, 1559-1648.", 24 May 2018 at 2:00-4:00 PM CET

Lay Vernacular Literacy in the Court of Edward the Confessor: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle C and the Vision of Leofric (Elizabeth Tyler)

Lecture by Elizabeth Tyler at the University of Manchester, 21 May 2018. Organised by Toller Lecture and The Manchester Cluster for Anglo-Saxon Studies

Lars Boje Mortensen, Seminar, "La prosa francese e norrena (c. 1190-1230), tra storia della letteratura e storia del libro manoscritto"

Lars Boje Mortensen, Seminar: "La prosa francese e norrena (c. 1190-1230), tra storia della letteratura e storia del libro manoscritto", 14 May 2018. Organised by Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

Boundaries of Negotiations & Interpreting Unfinished Later Medieval Manuscripts

Boundaries of Negotiations & Interpreting Unfinished Later Medieval Manuscripts at Kalamazoo 2018, 10-13 May. The session is organised by Kristin Bourassa, Centre for Medieval Literature, Anne-Hélène Miller, Marco Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Tennessee and Justin Sturgeon, University of West Florida

Imperial Languages: Empires and their Imprint

Imperial Languages Workshop I: Texts, 19-20 April 2018, organised by Centre for Medieval Literature, King's College London, SOAS and Courtauld Institute

From Heroic Failure to Christian Dejection (Aglae Pizzone)

DIAS Assistant Professor Aglae Pizzone speaks in the IDEAS series, 21 March 2018 at 12:15-1:15 PM CET at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study conference room (Ø18-509-1)

The Mirror of Antiquity: The Non-Modern in a Lacanian Perspective

Workshop, 15-16 March 2018 organised by Christian Høgel (CML) and Nicolai von Eggers (Danish Institute at Athens)

Continuities Between Medieval and Humanist Translation Theory and Practice

Conference on medieval and humanist translation theory and practice, 23-24 February 2018. organised by Réka Forrai, Centre for Medieval Literature and Annet den Haan

Peopling Poetic Anthologies: Medieval European Anthologies and Social Networks

Workshop, St John's College, University of Cambridge, 16-17 February 2018. Organisers: Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge), Thomas O’Donnell (Fordham University), Elizabeth Tyler (Centre for Medieval Literature, University of York) and Wim Verbaal (Ghent University)

England in Europe: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Mid-Eleventh Century (Elizabeth Tyler)

Elizabeth Tyler speaks at St Andrews on "England in Europe: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Mid-Eleventh Century", 12 February 2018

Thinking with Images: from Raimon Llull to Network Theory (Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto)

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto speaks at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, 22 November 2017

Canon Hispánico: Classical and Late Antique authors in medieval Iberian literature

Conference on Classical and Late Antique authors in medieval Iberian literature, 2-3 November 2017 at the Noble Women's Convent

Reception: Ælnoth's Chronicle at Møntergården

The manuscript containing the oldest history of Denmark (c. 1180) goes on display in Odense at Møntergården Museum, 13 October 2017

The Egocentric World Map (Dale Kedwards)

Dale Kedwards speaks on "The egocentric world map: the self-centred world now, and in the Middle Ages.", 27 September 2017 at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study

Pirate Fiction in the Middle Ages, 500-1500

Conference at SDU, 21-22 September 2017. This conference brings together historians and literary scholars to explore medieval pirate narratives

CML sessions at Kalamazoo ICMS 2017

Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late-Medieval Political Literature, Kalamazoo 11-14 May 2017

From Family Honor to Abstract Communities

Lars Boje Mortensen gives a lecture at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, 10 May 2017

Astrolabes and Automata in the Global Middle Ages (Shazia Jagot)

Shazia Jagot speaks at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, 19 April 2017: In an age when our dependency on technology is steadily increasing, it is easy to determine the pre-modern world as mechanically inert.

Medieval Ascension Narratives in Islamic and European Traditions

A one-day workshop on medieval ascension narratives. 27 March 2017 at the David Collection, Copenhagen.

Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late Medieval Political Literature: France, Burgundy, England, and Scotland

International workshop on late-medieval political literature, 18-19 March 2017 in Odense. Organizers: Kristin Bourassa, Centre for Medieval Literature and Justin Sturgeon, University of West Florida

The Usefulness of the Middle Ages (Jeff Rider)

Jeff Rider on the usefulness of the Middle Ages at DIAS, 1 March 2017

"England in Europe: Elite Social Mobility and the Literary Culture of 11th-C England" (Elizabeth Tyler)

Elizabeth Tyler gives a lecture to the Program in Medieval Studies, UC Berkeley, 27 February 2017

"Lay Vernacular Literacy in the Court of Edward the Confessor: Cotton Tiberius B i (Old English Orosius and Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) and German Imperial History-Writing" (Elizabeth Tyler)

CML's Elizabeth Tyler speaks at the Yale Medieval Colloquium. 17 February 2017

Exposing the Flat Earth and Other Myths of Medieval Science (Christian Etheridge)

Christian Etheridge on medieval science at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, 15 February 2017

Guest Lecture, Languages of Early Medieval Charters Project (Elizabeth Tyler)

Elizabeth Tyler gives a guest lecture at the Languages of Early Medieval Charters Project at Universidad del Pais Vasco UPV/EHU, 21 January 2017

Charles IV: An Emperor in Europe (1315-2016)

Symposium organised by Penn Libraries, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS), Centre for Medieval Literature and Penn School of Arts and Siences- 13-14 October 2016

Theorizing Medieval European Literatures

International conference organised by CML, 30 June - 2 July 2016 at the University of York

Medieval Self-Commentaries between East and West

Workshop on 9-11 June 2016 organised by Aglae Pizzone (CML). This workshop aims to explore the medieval tradition of self-commentaries from a comparative perspective.

Travelling Wisdom: Science in the Medieval Religious Orders

Conference on 2-3 June 2016 in Odense

Summer School, Reading Pleasure/Pleasure Reading: Medieval Approaches to Reading

Summer school at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 23-28 May 2016, organised by Greek and Byzantine Studies, Uppsala University and the Centre for Medieval Literature. This summer school will explore discourses and strategies of reading and pleasure in the Middle Ages.

York Medieval Lecture (David Wallace, Europe: New Foundations for an Unknown Future)

Lecture at the University of York, 9 March 2016

Lars Boje Mortensen, Eighteenth Annual E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture

Lars Boje Mortensen delivers the Eighteenth Annual E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture, on "Meritocratic Values in High Medieval Literature." 3 December 2015 at the University of Cambridge

Politics of time and space in the Byzantine Empire between the 12th and the 13th century

Conference panel at the 44th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, 4-7 October 2018. This panel explores how constructions of space and time in Byzantine texts from the 12th to the 13th century were determined by and impacted on contemporary imperial ideologies.